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Azure Cost Assessment

FinOps-certified practitioner Michael Stephenson introduces the cost assessment survey. He walks through the survey, explaining its importance and the types of questions it includes. The survey covers topics such as the frequency of cloud cost reviews, who is responsible for cost monitoring, methods for tracking spending, and much more! He also emphasizes the need for proactive cost management and highlights common practices like shutting down unused resources and right-sizing. The goal is to help organizations manage and optimize their cloud costs more effectively.

The CIO Pocket Guide to Internal Developer Portals

As a CIO or IT leader, the need for speed and efficiency is always in tension with governance and compliance requirements. Sounds all too familiar – the frustration of slow incident resolution, outdated ownership records and resistance from engineering teams. You’ve sunk significant time and effort into implementing your ITSM platforms (such as ServiceNow), yet you struggle with buy-in and adoption from engineering teams. They can’t afford to be throttled any further.

Myth vs. Reality: Lessons in Reliability from the July 19 Outage

It was 3AM at Newark Liberty International Airport. I was groggy, waiting in line to get my boarding pass, only to be met with a blue screen on the check-in kiosk. Needing some coffee, I learned the vendor was only accepting cash. There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”).

Introducing Kosli's Logical Environments: Gain total visibility and control over complex systems

In today’s fast-paced development landscape, environments are no longer simple or isolated. You’re managing resources that span across development stages, geographies, and technologies. And as those environments grow more complex, so does the need for a more logical and efficient way to manage them.

Keep Your VIPs Happy with Martello Vantage DX

Keep Your VIPs Happy with Martello Vantage DX Tired of constantly firefighting Microsoft Teams issues for your VIPs? In this video, discover how Martello Vantage DX helps IT teams shift from reactive problem-solving to proactive management. With end-to-end visibility, automated correlation, and synthetic testing, Vantage DX identifies and resolves issues before they disrupt important meetings. See how you can deliver a flawless Teams experience and keep your VIPs satisfied.

The Benefits of Mobile Device Management for MSPs

-According to a 2023 Verizon Enterprise report, personal and company-owned mobile devices are among the top three most common targets for cyberattacks, underscoring the need to be able to manage and secure them. NinjaOne recently introduced mobile device management (MDM) with multi-tenancy functionality. Now MSPs can configure multiple APNs, ADE profiles, content tokens, and Android Enterprise connections, in a single NinjaOne environment.

Automatic Discovery and Instrumentation of PostgreSQL with Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector

In this video I’ll walk through the steps to instrument a PostgreSQL database using the Automatic discovery and configuration feature of the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector. We’ll use an install script to install and run the Collector with discovery mode on a Linux machine where the database is running. I’ll then show you how to properly configure the PostgreSQL receiver properties so that the Collector is able to connect and authenticate to the database. Once the Collector is successfully configured, I’ll show you how to view those metrics in Splunk Observability Cloud.

On-Premises or SaaS? How to Choose the Right ScienceLogic Deployment

When it comes to setting up new technology – especially one you rely on for monitoring and maintaining IT infrastructure service health and availability – the process is far more intricate than just tweaking a few settings. It demands thoughtful planning and specialized knowledge to ensure seamless integration and alignment with your operational goals. That’s why we’re excited to offer the ScienceLogic AI platform in both cloud-based and on-premises configurations.

Industrial Automation Insider: What You Need to Think About - and Be Prepared to Change - When Spec'ing Out a Machine Vision System

How do you know what you need from a machine vision system? Or if machine vision is even the right imaging technology for what you need to see? Do you need deep learning optical character recognition (OCR) or some other AI-centric vision tools? How do you ensure your machine vision system will work well with your robotics components or RFID or any other connected technologies on the line? And how do you get the lighting right?

What is Network Monitoring? Everything You Need to Know About, What It Is & How It Works

' Whether you’re a seasoned IT professional or just beginning to explore the intricacies of network monitoring, you may have heard about "Network Monitoring" and how important it is to ensure that your network, and all its related applications, services and devices, are working as they should be.